Abstract

Democracy is one of the most appreciated and encouraged concepts throughout the world. One of its pillars is equality, suggesting that all humans are equal in choice, voting, and decision-making. In the future (and already now), artificial intelligence will empower countless devices to make more and more decisions based on data and machine learning. An important question emerging from this new shift will be if the concept of democracy will need to be revisited with the strong upcoming of AI.

Democracy as a concept was created to regulate human governance, given that they were the only beings reaching the intelligence level required to discuss decisions and share power. But with the advent of artificial forms of intelligence, will their existence be considered in future decision-making? Will intelligent devices have the same weight as humans or citizens with the same level of knowledge? What gives legitimacy to humankind to hold the ultimate power over other intelligent forms?

Anass Sedrati

Business Technologist @ Bintess

Anass Sedrati is a PhD candidate in IoT security and governance and a Wikipedia administrator.